Microsoft warns
How China is using AI to manipulate elections worldwide
The accusation is highly explosive: China will attempt to manipulate the upcoming elections in the United States, India and South Korea in its political favor using AI-generated content. Software giant Microsoft warns of this in a sensational new report. Krone+ knows the background to the red cyber threat.
"With major global elections taking place this year, we expect China [...] to create and distribute AI-generated content to advance its interests," reads the threat analysis compiled by the Microsoft Threat Analysis Center (MTAC), which is currently generating a lot of political furor.
According to the report, the US company assumes that cyber groups financed by the Chinese state are targeting geopolitically important elections. In particular, the elections in South Korea (Wednesday, April 10), on the Indian subcontinent (April 19 to June 1) and in the USA (November 5) are therefore in Beijing's sights. The influence of AI stunts is still relatively low, but this will certainly change in the future. Or to put it another way: The red cyber threat is real.
The cyber warriors from the People's Republic are using two key strategies in their digital campaign:
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